David Prentice: Epic comeback shows Everton FC’s day is surely coming

13 September 2010 01:00
PHIL NEVILLE didn't know what day it was. Everton's usually switched on skipper opened his programme notes with a warm: 'Good evening and welcome to Goodison Park ' for a lunchtime kick-off.[LNB]But it was that kind of day. No-one seemed to know if they were coming or going.[LNB]Players, fans and media stumbled out of Goodison Park on Saturday afternoon wondering if they'd been party to an elaborate Jeremy Beadle sketch.[LNB]Manchester United don't give up two-goal leads (eight years ago was the last time). They certainly don't give them up with 90 seconds remaining.[LNB] But such was the drama on Saturday that they did just that - and then might even have lost. Everton started well, could have been buried, then might have won.[LNB]And the message was delivered pre as well as post-match. This Everton side fancies its chances against the big boys. The inferiority complex which infiltrated every pore of the club pre-David Moyes has gone.[LNB]Moyes wrote in the matchday magazine: 'For me they (United) are the club and the side we have to try and use as our new target. We are now trying hard to match Manchester United.'[LNB]There's still a long way to go, particularly off the pitch, but Saturday was the third season running now that United have come to Goodison and left winless. And it's impossible to understate the impact the Everton crowd has had on those results.

Source: Liverpool_Echo